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Are you tired of uploading video to YouTube that looks great on your screen but like CR@P when you embed it on your site? Want to change that? Here is how you do it. And it is simpler than you might think.

Add &ap=%2526fmt%3D18 to the end of the URL strings just inside the final Quote (“) for BOTH URL Strings in the embed code.

Low Res

Hi Res

What’s the Difference

I noticed the other day when viewing one of my latest YouTube uploads there was a “veiw high quality” link I hadn’t seen before.  It has been awhile since I uploaded anything to YouTube.  When I did the mouse over going back and forth between high quality and normal I saw it went from the YouTube server to Google video server for the High Res version.

A little further investigation and I found the code to place inside your embed code to get the same high res version.

YouTube Tip if you add &fmt=18 to the end of any YouTube URL (While on YouTube) it will play a High Res version of the video.  You can add this to a link if you are just sending the YouTube link to a friend and it will show them a higher res version than clicking on High Res will.  Caveat:  If the original video was uploaded in the small 320 X 240 resolution it won’t look good.

Youtube video has been a bane to me. I love the service but I hate viewing YouTube videos which look like I shot the image through a mosaic filter. From now on they don’t have to.

Yes, you can put a caption around an embeded video.